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by anonymoushermit 1684 days ago
I'm sure this headline has nothing to do with the massive supply of expiring vials that pharmaceutical companies are desperately hoping to turn a profit on.
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We had a choice to make things government control without a profit motive, to ignore IP law and have a Trips waiver, to nationalize healthcare, and we said no to all of them and the result is a system where there's supposed to be a profit motive reason behind everything.

Isn't this what everyone wanted? Everything being run "like a business" to maximize profits? Wasn't that how we all intentionally set it up? Shouldn't y'all be feverishly shaking the pom poms and doing backflips and squad cheers for capitalist efficiencies and the free market?

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2114255

Probably has to do with the fact that the booster is effective.